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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (73973)	1/18/2000 8:50:00 PM
From: Earlie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Terry: Yes indeed,... a giant curling stone. Even the crown in the road can slowly but surely ease you over into the ditch, guard rail or what have you on that stuff. The autobody shops love it. I recall following a "sander" along a rural road on just such a day. No problems (at 10 mph) until we breasted a hill and headed down into a nice little valley. Of course the sanding truck chose that exact instant to run out of sand. The sander began to slowly accelerate down the hill, slowly rotating from front to back. Towards the bottom, he drifted off the road,.....and right into a series of other wrecks all accumulated at the bottom of the hill. The pile-up included another sanding truck. All of the damaged vehicles were on one side of the road. As nobody had been moving very fast, damage was to vehicles only. Of course, my car also became a "giant curling stone", but I was lucky and sailed through the wreckage, straddling the crown in the road. Part way up the other side of the valley, the car finally stopped and I began to breathe again. Then I noticed that in spite of the locked brakes, I was beginning to slide back down toward the wrecks! A few feet shy of the wreckage, my car finally slipped off the crown and slowly slid over to the road side guard rail, where it stopped without damage, (as a result of some snow that had been ploughed the day before). I was now a few feet ahead of the pile-up, but on the "non-collision" side of same. Before it was over, about twenty cars were collected in that valley, fortunately @ about $1000 damage apiece. You would see each new participant creep over the hill (on sanded road), then slowly slide down into the assembled metal, all in ultra slow motion. Ah, the joys of the Canuck winter. (g) Best, Earlie